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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy does not expect all its balloons to land in the U.S. Many will go down in the Atlantic from Labrador to Cuba. They will range en route as far north as Alaska and as far south as Hawaii. Wherever they wander, they will report winds, temperature and air pressure in regions almost unknown to meteorologists, and will give better understanding of the high-speed winds that dominate the airways where jet liners will soon be flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Balloons for the Jet Stream | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...taller than the 5 ft. 6 in. Prince. Later, at the Harwyn Club, Grace nibbled at Rainier's ear, and danced with him until 4 a.m. This week she was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, leaving her fiancé to wander around the U.S. until time for the spring wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Philadelphia Princess | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Other conference faults are poor preparation and direction. Often a group meets before anyone has studied the subject, and the discussion is allowed to wander. Says Trans World Airlines' President Ralph Damon: "The temptation is to wrangle about something affecting only two or three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPANY CONFERENCES.: The Perils of Table-Sitting | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate to tell "the teach" just what they thought of her. Such students, says Author Dunn, "know your exact place and sooner or later make it known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Coated Pill | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Female on the Beach (Universal). "Come away with me to Los Angeles!" the wealthy widow (Judith Evelyn) implores. Her hands wander idly over the alluring mass of rented muscle that lies sprawled upon her divan. Alas, no cash, no mash. To make ends meet, Jeff Chandler has hired out as a sex shill to a couple of confidence gamesters at a California seashore resort, and when the lady starts pinching pennies. Jeff stops pinching her. He just picks up his muscles and walks out. That same night the lady dies. "I'm sorry," says Jeff, and waits a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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